Political risk must-reads

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Eurasia Group‚Äôs weekly selection of essential reading for the political-risk junkie — presented in no particular order. As always, feel free to give us your feedback or selections by tweeting at us via¬†@EurasiaGroup¬†or¬†@ianbremmer.

Technically speaking, the European Union has had an official embargo on arms shipments to China since Tiananmen Square in 1989. So why are there so many European-made components in Chinese military craft?

‚ÄúHow does a country look after the living if it knows next to nothing about how they die?‚ÄĚ In a country where cremation often precludes autopsy, more out-of-the-box methods for surveying have been adopted. What has the Million Deaths Survey revealed?

Seventy-nine percent of the poorest counties in the United States are located in the South. What is the one region that saw significant increases in median income from 2007-2012? This piece shows America‚Äôs income inequality through a series of graphical maps.

Author Profile

Ian Bremmer is the president of Eurasia Group, the leading global political risk research and consulting firm. Bremmer created Wall Street's first global political risk index, and has authored several books, including the national bestseller, The End of the Free Market: Who Wins the War Between States and Corporations?, which details the new global phenomenon of state capitalism and its geopolitical implications. He has a PhD in political science from Stanford University (1994), and was the youngest-ever national fellow at the Hoover Institution.